Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails is a popular board game in which two to four players collect cards of trains and ships to claim railway and sea routes across the entire globe. The game features a double-sided board with a world map on one side and the Great Lakes of North America on the other side of the board, and also includes double-ship cards for longer routes.
To earn points in Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails, players must claim routes, complete routes on their tickets, and build harbors. However, the more points they have, the more chances they have of winning the game, as the person with the most wins.
How to Play the Ticket to Ride Rails and Sails
The game board shows a map of the world and includes 165 colored train cars (33 each in blue, red, green, yellow, and black), 250 colored ships (50 each in blue, red, green, yellow, and black), 15 harbors (3 each in blue, red, green, yellow, and black), 140 travel cards (80 train cards and 60 ship cards), 120 destination ticket cards (65 for the world and 55 for the Great Lakes), and 5 wooden scoring markers (1 each in blue, red, green, yellow, and black).
Start Playing
To start playing, place the game board in the center of the table and pick either the World Map or Great Lakes Map side so you can proceed. Now, all players receive a set of colored train tokens and ship tokens with a matching board to play on.
Next, you should mix the train and ship cards individually, and then place them into two separate draw piles. Set up the scoring track and the harbors near the board, and then all the players will begin with 4 train and 4 ship cards.
Taking the Turns
The game is played over a series of turns, where each person decides on taking one action per turn and decides whether to draw two train cards, draw two ship cards, claim a route, or draw three new ticket cards and keep at least one of them. To claim a route, play the required number and color of train or ship cards matching the routes.
Earning Points
To earn points in Ticket to Ride Rails and Sails, players claim routes, and the longer the route, the more points it is worth. On top of that, players can also earn points for completing their ticket cards, which show specific routes between cities.
The players can build in coastal cities, and if they have a finished ticket that contains the city name, it is worth 20 points. However, if there are multiple tickets with the same city name, the harbor’s value will be 30 or 40 points.
Winning
Ticket to Ride Rails & Sails is a popular board game in which players collect trains and ships cards to build railway and sea routes across the entire globe. The game ends when a player has two or fewer tokens left, and the player with the highest score wins.
